The new AACS 2.0 encryption method used to protect Ultra HD Blu-rays from unlawful copying may have been cracked for the first time. A report from Torrent Freak brings word that a copy of Smurfs 2 has been posted to the BitTorrent tracker ...
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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were able to benefit from advancements in the field ...
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The cyber-extortionists behind the Cryptolocker "ransomware", which encrypts users' files and refuses to decrypt them without payment, have extended their deadline for affect PC users. Cryptolocker uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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A defiant Edward Snowden resurfaced in Hong Kong today vowing to fight any U.S. efforts to extradite him on charges that he leaked classified documents describing two secret government data collection programs. In comments to the South ...
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Computerworld - A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered a suspect in a child porn investigation to either provide prosecutors with the passwords to several encrypted storage devices of his that are thought to contain incriminating evidence ...
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The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located in foreign countires -- to do research, gather and copy evidence or block access to ...
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Ivo Opstelten, Dutch minister of Safety and Justice The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems — including those located in foreign countries ...
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It's hard to hear the phrases, "Your mission, should you decide to accept it" or "this tape will self-destruct in five seconds" without bringing to mind Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt (or for the older readers, Dan Briggs or Jim Phelps) of the ...
Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Security company Maz Encryption Technologies sued seven large technology companies for allegedly infringing on several of its security patents. The suits target security technology used in the iPhone and iPad as well as the BlackBerry ...
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An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
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The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching ...
Renesas Electronics has doubled the on-chip memory in its RX600 microcontrollers for networking equipment applications. The RX63N/RX631 product groups have up to 256kbyte embedded RAM and 2Mbyte flash. “The new RX63N/RX631 MCUs ...
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"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
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